September 5, 1944 – Mieczysław Stelmasiak, MD at the request of Henryk Raabe, presented the project on organizational design of the Faculty of Medicine, chairs and departments and curriculum

September 18, 1944 – Professor Raabe appeal for organizational structures of Academy of Medicine and Life Sciences

October 23, 1944 – PKWN decree on the establishment of Maria Skłodowska-Curie University with Faculty of Medicine

October 24, 1944 – the organizational meeting of the Board of Faculty of Medicine, the first Dean (Prof. Jan H. Lubieniecki) and Vice Dean (Edward Grzegorzewski, PhD) were elected through a secret ballot voting

October 26, 1944 – the first solemn meeting of professors and assistants of UMCS, so called session on barrels, at the hall of Staszica High Scool at Racławickie 20 Street, establishment of Faculty Boards

October 27, 1944 – second session Board of Faculty of Medicine – establishment of recruitment procedures and organizational structures of chairs and departments

November 1, 1944 – nominations for the first professors, including 3 professors for Faculty of Medicine: Jan Henryk Lubieniecki, Jakub Węgierka, Felik Skubiszewski

November 2, 1944 – letter of Rector Henryk Raabe to the contemporary director of Saint Wincenty a Paulo hospital on establishment of Chair and Department of Surgery on the grounds of a clinic

November 4, 1944 – the possibility of establishment of Faculty of Pharmacy publicly announced during Board of Faculty of Medicne. It was possible due to enormous efforts of Witold Grzegorz Łobarzewski, PharmD – first Head of Lublin District Pharmaceutical Chamber

November 22, 1944 – entrance exam at the Faculty of Medicine of UMCS (460 candidates for 200 available places)

November 24, 1944 – establishment of Chair of Military Medicine (at the order of commander-in-chief of Polish Army)

January 3, 1945 at 7 a.m. – the first lecture for 3rd and 4th year students of Faculty of Medicine given by deputy professor Tadeusz Kielanowski MD, PhD – beginning of lectures and labs at the Faculty of Medicine

January 9, 1945 – establishment of 5th faculty at UMCS – Faculty of Pharmacy. It was the second Faculty of Pharmacy in Poland (after the establishment of Faculty of Pharmacy in Warsaw in 1926), being the 6th pharmaceutical didactic and scientific centre

January 9, 1945 – solemn oath for students of all faculties of UMCS

January 11, 1945 – the first session of the Board of the Faculty of Pharmacy and election of the first Dean – prof. K. Kalinowski

January 14, 1945 – solemn inauguration for the 1st year students at the hall of Staszic High School in Lublin

January 1945 – the Faculty of Medicine acquired the right to confer the title of doctor of medicine and the title of doctor habilitatus

February 10, 1945 – establishment of Chair and Department of Skin and Venereal diseases at the seat of District Military Hospital, transferred on October 1945 to Saint Joseph hospital at Radziwiłowksa 11 (13 today) where it has been located until today

October 31, 1945 – overtake of an old Jewish school (Jeszybot) at Lubartowska Street (groundfloor and the first floor adjusted for the Faculty of Medicine)

May 25, 1946 – changing the Chair of Military Medicine into Faculty of Military Medicine

July 31, 1946 – changing the organizational structure of Faculty of Military Medicine (result of employees of the Chair joining the strike of UMCS employees within the period before people’s referendum in 1946)

October 24, 1949 – Ordinance of the Council of Ministers on establishment of Medical Academies in Poland

January 1, 1950 – Faculty of Medicine (together with the Faculty of Pharmacy) became a part of newly founded Medical Academy, since March 23 1950 Medical Academy of Lublin

February 4, 1950 – the first solemn MA thesis defense at the Faculty of Pharmacy, presentation of 24 diplomas

1950 – establishment of Rector’s Office and Administration Office of Medical Academy of Lublin in the former building of Medical Chamber at Cicha 6 Street, establishment of Senate of Medical Academy of Lublin

1950 – termination of construction of modern Department of Dentistry in the ruins of a former Scales Factory at Lubartowska 56 Street – October 1, 1952 establishment of Military Academy of Medical Academy of Lublin (at the order of Ministry of Defense) at Cicha 6 Street, since 1954 located at Pstrowskiego 12 Street

1953 – establishment of Academy of Physical Education

1954 – acquisition of building at Chmielna 1 Street for the use of Chair of Ophthalmology

1956 – establishment of Department of Foreign Languages

1956 – establishment of Department of Infectious Diseases (based on the grounds of the Ward in the local hospital at Biernackiego 5 Street)

1968 – another reform of pharmacy: new courses are introduced – pharmaceutical analysis and clinical analysis

June 25, 1969 – establishment of the Nursing College at the Medical Academy of Lublin with a 3-year program and election of the first head of the center (Assistant Professor Marian Klamut)

September 15-17, 1969 – the first entrance exam to the Faculty of Nursing (60 people admitted, 323 people taking the exam, 90 people passed)

October 4, 1969 – solemn inauguration of the academic year at the Nursing College

1969 – establishment of Center for doctoral studies

1971 – establishment of Hemodialysis Center at the Department of Nephrology at PSK 4 – the first artificial kidney (May 1, 1971 the first hemodialysis)

February 1, 1972 – establishment of (on the grounds of PSK 4) Independent Unit of Heart and Vessel Roentgen Diagnostics

May 3, 1972 – opening of the Department of Lung Diseases

July 19, 1972 – establishment of the Faculty of Nursing at the Medical Academy of Lublin with a 4-year program (founded from the Nursing College) – the first in the history of Poland and Europe Nursing Department – the 3rd Department at the Medical Academy of Lublin on October 1, 1972 – solemn inauguration of the first academic year of 240 students

May 15, 1973 – establishment of Department of Dentistry

November 16, 1973 – the first solemn MA thesis defense at the Faculty of Nursing – presentation of 54 diplomas

June 19, 1974 – the first artificial lung-heart in the Lublin region, gift from FSC (truck factory) to the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

July 1975 – establishment Faculty of Nursing with part time studies

November 29, 1976 – solemn opening of Institute of Dentistry at Kliniczna Street (today Karmelicka Street); the Institute was founded on September 18, 1974

May 22, 1975 – the first three honoris causa degrees conferred by Medical Academy of Lublin

1978 – the first graduates of the Department of Dentistry (51 students)

November 27, 1979 – the Faculty of Pharmacy acquired the right to confer the degree of doctor in pharmaceutical sciences

1979 – new building of Department of Ophthalmology at Chmielna 1 Street put into use

November 15, 1980 at 00:12 p.m. – beginning of an occupational strike of students of Medical Academy of Lublin, 1000 people take part

December 13, 1981 – introduction of the state of war. Medical Academy of Lublin was governed by a military commissioner, like every institution at that time. Medical Academy of Lublin was closed for a short period of time. Many employees were recruited by the intelligence.

April 29, 1993 – free of charge facilitation of a former PZPR Committee building at Aleje Racławickie 1 Street for 10 years (City Council Resolution in Lublin; notary act on its use completed on March 2, 1944); since 2010 – the property of the University – today Collegium Novum

March 29, 1994 – Association of Graduates and Friends of Medical Academy of Lublin, registered on April 22, 1994, election of the first Board of the Association

August 26, 1994 – the first in Lublin kidney transplant at the Department of General Surgery at PSK 4

1995 – new specialization: midwifery at the Faculty of Nursing

April 1997 – the first issue of a magazine of the Medical Academy of Lublin „Problemy Nauki, Dydaktyki I Lecznictwa”

2012 – the first publication of Current Issues in Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Formarly Annales UMCS Sectio DDD Pharmacia)

November 30, 2012 – Central Council for Science and Higher Education gave a positive opinion to the application submitted by Central Commission for Degrees and Titles on conferring the Doctor of Health Sciences Degree to the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences of the Medical University of Lublin